Galba murdered in the Forum
69 · Event
Seventy-year-old Galba — rigid, stingy, and fatally slow to pay the donative he owed the Praetorians — is butchered in the open Forum seven months into his reign, and his head carried on a pike to Otho, the favourite he had passed over for the succession. Tacitus's epitaph: capax imperii nisi imperasset — everyone thought him fit to rule, until he ruled.
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